Christopher Wood RSW

Christopher Wood achieves something remarkable. Colours and abstract marks - moments of paint - coalesce into recognisable instances. These are truths that are seen and felt by the artist and then shared. It might be a breathing sea, a cliff revealing ancient reds, or the smell of scurvy grass as the tide recedes - all made more powerful by the poetic language of abstraction.

These latest twenty paintings reveal Christopher Wood to be an artist in full power. They are works that endure well beyond the first gaze. They are paintings that timelessly sing an ancient song.

BORROWED LAND is an exhibition which celebrates the importance of land, sea and sky, and the artists who have made it their muse. Scottish landscape has a power known throughout the world, but it is more than this - it is a home and an ecology.



This exhibition includes work by twenty-five artists: from the awe-inspired painters, the northern romantics, to others who see it as a metaphor or celebrate its silence, and ceramic artists who reform its clay-body with fire.

Christopher Wood is one of the finest abstracted painters of the sea you can find anywhere. They are never a specific place, a view, because each painting is returned to...